Julie Spain, B.A.(Psychology); B.Soc.Wk; MAASW Since graduating from the University of Queensland Australia, with an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a post graduate degree in Social Work, I have spent over 25 years helping people recover from personal disasters that caused trauma, grief and extreme disruption to their lives. After years of working with individuals, groups and speaking to audiences, I wanted to find a way to pass on all this knowledge and skills I had accumulated and to help as many people as possible, rise above their life crisis and reclain back their life and transform it from devastation into something much better

In addition to spending 8 years at university earning my degrees, I have spent 14 years in private practice working with people in just about every situation imaginable, for example, abuse, grief, relationship issues, parenting, victims of trauma and staff welfare to name just a few areas.

For the past 10 years, I have been the manager of the Employee Assistance Service for the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service.  Here I was responsible for psychological services to over 50,000 staff and volunteers as well as their families.  I have been involved with an extremely wide range of traumas, for example, house and bush fires, motor vehicle accidents, cyclones, suicides, bus crashes, death, abusive situations and relationship breakdowns.

I have presented academic papers at various conferences(eg National Australian Association of Social Workers and Critical Incident Stress Management Foundation Of Australia), developed programs, policies and procedures for organizations to help them provide the best psychological care to victims of disaster and crisis and have consulted with many organizations and management on staff welfare.

I have brought all this experience to my book: “Thriving Not Just Surviving a Life Crisis: How to Bounce Back and Find Happiness Again"

In 2008 my husband, Will, and I formed our business Sigma Mindset. This is an offline and online business dedicated to smashing your emotional and mental barriers to success and providing the means to acheive well being and peak performance in all aspects of your business and life.

Please feel free to contact me at contact@thrivingalifecrisis.com with any other questions you may have about me and my business.

Take care

PS By the way, if you are needing a public speaker for your upcoming event, just drop me a line on the above email address and I may be able to help you out.

"Thriving Not Just Surviving a Life Crisis: How to Bounce Back and Find Happiness Again"